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Fast Websites Are Good for the World

MachMetrics

Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate. Fast Websites Save Energy.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. Today, their time-to-market is close to zero.

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Top SEO Trends to Watch Out for in 2023

Official Blog - World Web Technology

With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. For example, if you have a financial website, writing on sports or other topics might not be relevant now. It will also help you get more traffic and leads on your website.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

One of the important criteria in launching this AWS Region is the opportunity to power it with renewable energy. We chose Bahrain in part due to the country's focus on executing renewable energy goals and its readiness to construct a new solar power facility to meet our power needs.

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. Some particularly useful information that is available from the Top500 list website highlights the performance development of supercomputer systems. Performance development.

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Choosing performance

Tim Kadlec

Content published as Instant Articles will also be published on the publishers’ websites. What I find interesting is the emphasis on speed. There are a few interesting interactive features, but speed is the selling point here. No, if a website is slow it’s because performance was not prioritized. The web is too slow.